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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

Robert Greene

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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Consumption Creativity Fact Goal Happiness Limitation
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent
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Competition Friendship Skill Work
If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.
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Creation Position Thinking Worry Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst
True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.
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Control Genius Mindset Presence Strategy Thinking True
Nothing is given to you.
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Effort One Liner Yourself
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
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Care Enemy Friendship Myself Protection
Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
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Confidence Creation Dynamic Fear Fulfill Translation
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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Break Expectation Feeling Moments People Yourself
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
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Climb Failure Fall Rush
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

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